Thread: Cant seem to stabilize no matter what i do! Help please!

it's because you've grown accustomed to thinking about waking. You've unknowingly reprogrammed your subconscious to wake up when you get lucid. Try relaxing a little and letting go.

Originally Posted by RunflaCruiser

it's because you've grown accustomed to thinking about waking. You've unknowingly reprogrammed your subconscious to wake up when you get lucid. Try relaxing a little and letting go.

This could've been true for me too. I've tried so hard to not wake up (and thus indirectly focusing on waking up), that it actually made me wake up. When I let that go, I started paying my attention to the dream and remembering being lucid. When I first tried that, for the first time I had a lucid dream that actually lasted longer than a minute. I guess it takes some practice stabilizing dreams for some, like us.

I always found it hard to stay in my lucid dream, but I didn't find it hard to initiate one. I guess this has all to do with conditioning of the brain.

Originally Posted by Koalaman

This could've been true for me too. I've tried so hard to not wake up (and thus indirectly focusing on waking up), that it actually made me wake up. When I let that go, I started paying my attention to the dream and remembering being lucid. When I first tried that, for the first time I had a lucid dream that actually lasted longer than a minute. I guess it takes some practice stabilizing dreams for some, like us.

I always found it hard to stay in my lucid dream, but I didn't find it hard to initiate one. I guess this has all to do with conditioning of the brain.

I have never really had too much of a problem with initiating my LDs but my problem with those times when RCs and all other techniques fail is just because i have been too focused on not waking up like a few of you said, as the last couple LDs i've had have been fairly long and all the techniques that i tried worked fine. Even when my RCs are wierd where things like my hands are normal, it is the act of performing an RC that makes me lucid, rather than the actual sight of something being out of place, so i am always lucid when i look at my hands even if they are normal. Just have to relax and enjoy the dream instead of being worried about waking up.

I just keep having wierd LDs like that; for example the most recent one i had everything was normal, hands normal, couldnt walk through my door, and a number of other things were normal. I guess its just random to have dreams that dont work like dreams and more like RL for me, but not a big deal or anything im too bummed about as it doesnt happen the majority of the time and im just happy to be LD as much as i have been lately.

Also my problem was more that techniques that should work wouldnt, rather than i was having problems staying in my dreams.

Originally Posted by mitch3590

I have never really had too much of a problem with initiating my LDs but my problem with those times when RCs and all other techniques fail is just because i have been too focused on not waking up like a few of you said, as the last couple LDs i've had have been fairly long and all the techniques that i tried worked fine. Even when my RCs are wierd where things like my hands are normal, it is the act of performing an RC that makes me lucid, rather than the actual sight of something being out of place, so i am always lucid when i look at my hands even if they are normal. Just have to relax and enjoy the dream instead of being worried about waking up.

I just keep having wierd LDs like that; for example the most recent one i had everything was normal, hands normal, couldnt walk through my door, and a number of other things were normal. I guess its just random to have dreams that dont work like dreams and more like RL for me, but not a big deal or anything im too bummed about as it doesnt happen the majority of the time and im just happy to be LD as much as i have been lately.

Also my problem was more that techniques that should work wouldnt, rather than i was having problems staying in my dreams.

Indeed. I have often become lucid by merely thinking about it while dreaming. The RC was just an addition to be 100% sure that I was dreaming when I was already quite sure. There was just one time I had a feeling I was dreaming but wasn't sure. I looked at my hands and was disappointed by them being realistic, because that would mean I was still awake. Then my hope for a lucid dream made my hands turn blue at which point I became lucid in my very realistic dream room.